LDAP be killing me. I need a good step by step
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Wed Jan 9 19:37:53 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:31 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
> >>> I suppose if Fedora saw itself as providing a turnkey distribution with
> >>> a notion towards a specific, pre-determined configuration that simply
> >>> worked out of the box, that would occur.
> >> So no one expects anyone to have more than one fedora box and need them
> >> to share network authentication?
> >>
> >>> i.e., isn't that what your
> >>> 'e-smith' distro (or whatever it is called) does?
> >> I thought the point of using any packaged distribution was that its own
> >> components would work together. E-smith (now SME server) just does a
> >> kickstart install and provides a web interface that does all your
> >> config-file editing for you with a few concepts combined - mostly geared
> >> towards being server for windows boxes. It does provide an ldap setup
> >> suitable for an outlook address book, but it can't authenticate against
> >> its own LDAP server let alone a different instance.
> > ----
> > perhaps you need to bugzilla an RFE
>
> I guess I always expected 'Fedora Directory Server' to be part of Fedora
> and come set up to work. Maybe I missed something obvious here...
----
coming from the guy who last week decried that it seemed the intent of
Fedora was to be a self-contained distribution, this is extremely
laughable.
It is impossible to know where you are coming from.
Craig
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